– After this presidential election, we can treat this as my own first reflection, but possibly we should talk in Poland about the fact that the president should be elected by the National Assembly," said Marshal Simon Holovnia on Monday.
Hołównia believes that the president in Poland could choose the National Assembly
– 1 parliamentary election, which generates specified emotions in Poland and inactive presidential elections, which add up to this with an even more polarized emotion may not service in this expression – in my opinion, at least as a practice of democracy – to keep peace and stableness in specified hard times – argued.
– Countries specified as Germany, Italy are someway coping with specified a system. And we have 1 more presidential election, or 2 or 3 more series, and I don't know what it's going to end with, looking at what passions these elections have awakened," he pointed out the examples of Holownia.
Although present the election of the president of the Republic takes place in the general election, the thought of Szymon Holownia to have the head of state elected by the National Assembly is not without precedent in Polish history. This way of appointing the president has already existed – both in the Second Republic and after planet War II.
According to the March Constitution of 1921, the president was elected by the National Assembly, i.e. a joint sitting of the Sejm and the Senate. Thus Gabriel Narutovich and Ignacy Mościcki were appointed to the highest office in the country.
Also in 1947, already in the realities of People's Poland, Bolesław Bierut was elected president. This mode was reached again after 1989: as a consequence of the circular Table agreements, in July 1989, Wojciech Jaruzelski was elected president, elected by parliament with minimal majority of the votes.
Only since 1990, after the amendment of the Constitution and the introduction of democratic elections, the president of the Republic has been elected by a general vote.
